the bailout battle cyprus struggles to meet e.u. demands for a rescue package ahead of monday's deadline with some harsh warnings that europe's patience is running out. for partnership the chinese president says cooperation with russia will lead to a fair world order as he makes a speech at a mosque a university on his first official overseas in gauge mood. and desperate act of defiance in guantanamo a mass hunger strike is entering its forty sixth day with the pentagon asking for almost fifty million dollars to renovate the notorious prison camp an. international news and comment watching our take coming chief live from moscow. now

the clock is ticking for debt stricken cyprus to meet conditions for a ten billion euro e.u. bailout the country's parliament has approved several key bills restructuring the banks but it is yet to decide on the most contentious measure a levy on bank deposits the deadline is on monday when the european central bank says it will cut off funds to cypriot banks artie's tessa cilla is following the torturous debates in the country's parliament and the mood on the streets. no the cypriot parliament has passed a series of bills which review part of a package that they will present to the troika to get approval in order to get the ten billion euro bailout they needed to save their country from bankruptcy their banks essentially now one of these bills pass is one on capital controls it could be imposed on banks this essentially means restricting the access of some people or to their accounts and also restricting the flow of money in and out of cypriot bank accounts of the other bill passes creating that solidarity fund which essentially

means pooling state assets together to create this fund to contribute to the amount of money they need to present in order to get that bailout again and another bill that was approved was restructuring banks out of people started protesting on the streets when it was announced that one of the conditions is imposing a tax on bank deposits of cypriot bank account holders and the people were certainly not happy with this this would eat into their savings they were worried that they will lose that amount of money now this is still a question and the parliamentarians here are still going to be debating on our how much that will be how a percentage that will be on which kind of back accounts of cypriot banks holders that will be as well so it's still a big question and this is an answer that the people are certainly going to be waiting for you been out into the streets speaking to the people on how they actually feel about the decisions that their leaders have been making so we're here with me to avoid the protesters for the past few days here in cyprus ever since i began else made over the last week and. will be giving them ten billion euros of bailout like conditions that they were willing to accept and it's really been

a combination of very fast the jury rating and bad news for cypriots and also some slow moving developments of finding solutions to the problems that they're facing now there's really a cash problem in the country the banks are probably going to going to be close until next week many people have already gone out to the streets tried to get some money from the a.t.m. the people gathered here it's really an interesting mix of there are some people worried for the possibility of losing their jobs and there's even some foreigners who have called cyprus home who are worried about their savings so we spoke to some of them and here's what they had to say the banking crisis has affected us too you know we can get the money we've earned morgan cyprus we're not jobless cash out of a.t.m. machines. we've invested our money into the economy of cyprus but they could cut us off what are the grounds for that. we have to get out of the euro but we will stay home how they would pay us and our kids.

we don't accept each other that would be no development with us and nobody would come to cyprus and us not part of it is actually just a few meters from the guard those guys over there beyond the barracks is the people of come out to the streets really want to get their voices were by the leaders who make their way to parliament to those meetings and come up with solutions for the country and this is the video from inside now in many trouble it was all nations people coming out to the streets in the past few days many of the people i've spoken to said that the one question on their minds is how is this going to go on leave we want to know when will that solution finally found reporting for me to see a cyprus i'm just personally. well german chancellor angela merkel appears furious with plan b. as mapped out by nicosia after it rejected the levy on bank deposits in parliament she complained of a lack of communication with cypresses leaders and more and they are playing with fire and t.k. a candidate for the very in parliament believes merkel's harsh rhetoric is because

she is feeling the heat domestically. now we're in a complicated situation and why the european union was so harsh i cannot explain for chancellor merkel it's the elections upcoming in september. that's why she demands that the people of cyprus have to. carry birds your. however for me this cannot be a little solution you cannot solve this situation by adding debt like the term billion now the european union willing to pay as a no one has a guarantee whatever about this will be no sustainable solution for which it will impose austerity to the people of cyprus they did it for them and now they change gears because because of the upcoming elections the german voters will not go on

with a government policy like this while the cypriot finance minister has been in moscow in search of a reskin deal but returned home empty handed his russian investors showed no interest however moscow says the door remains open and is prepared to assist in reaching a consensus between nicosia and the e.u. and as artie's news editor i the quote explains some believe the e.u. is hardline stance stems from german chancellor merkel's desire to gain all she can politically from the situation. this starts at a russia e.u. summit last year when the euro krotz told russia that cyprus would be their problem to solve cyprus had been racked by the greek economic collapse the russians didn't take kindly to that said it's a euro zone problem and it's not like russians are the only ones availing of time cypriot tax loopholes however russia did stop two and a half billion to help try and keep the island afloat a change in the cypriot government last year delayed any chance of a resolution most notably russia e.u.

summit last december but it crucially brought the timing of any deal into the german election cycle and this is why merkel is playing hardball merkel's in search of votes she's under pressure at home and explains the euro group's decision to back a raid on privately held posits in cyprus germany's taking a very very hard line on this issue merkel's uncompromising stance backed euro groups decision to raid privately held super deposits weekend. and sent the cypriots to moscow looking for help the russians look at the cyprus approach and say no we're not going to get involved for two reasons one it's a eurozone problem but secondly merkel is going to drive this into the ground she's taking a hard line on the cypriot issue and nobody is going to touch cyprus or until she has finished the political process or may get into the political capital necessary from this situation to let cyprus off the hook it's going to be

a very very long weekend in the halls of process in berlin and the escalating crisis in cyprus is sending shivers all across the eurozone and the asian markets and i'm really at a nonny tell dante sylvania could be next in line looking for an e.u. bailout. the cypriot crisis will have broad based impacts across the eurozone and across the wider region but one country that stands out in particular is slovenia slovenia has been standing out as a potential candidate for seeking international bailout for much of the past year and now that we have had the crisis in cyprus form of the proposed bailout and a potential tax on deposits it really creates increases fears in slovenia of what an international bailout might entail so definitely want to want to bear in mind going forward as long as it's not shut from international markets and i don't think it is they will be fine and they won't have to seek international bailout the condition which would trigger slovenia having to seek international bailout is if the current political turmoil in slovenia carries on and effectively keeps living

in the shots live in the out of international markets under that scenario might have to seek international bailout and i think the stress points will become visible towards the second half of the when slovenia starts running out of cash. for more expert analysis and opinions on the deadlock you can head to our website at r.t.e. dot com and find out why some believe the levee plan was a nonstarter and all the positives large and small will have to cough up anyway no matter what it's doing. online and to the euro now and merkel could put these are some of the slogans chanted by protesters taking to the streets nicosia in fury over the bailout plan. the new chinese president has called on cooperation with russia saying it will lead to a fair world order xi jinping is in russia for his first official overseas trip since taking office and was addressing students at

a moscow university russia and china appear to be forging ever closer ties with the two states agreeing major energy and trade deals xi jinping has already called the accords a breakthrough with russia's ross neath now the world's largest oil producer set to double supplies to china so let's get more on this now from artie's every nigga. i mean he was addressing the students today but did the chinese president also say that the talks on energy deals are still ongoing. well yes you can say that but of course he started off by kind of employing a political license and saying that his visit timed in march is sort of symbolic because he's hoping that this seize that he saw and will bring will bring good harvest and by looks of it it certainly will be the case of course as you have mentioned there is there there is the ross never deal with being the world's largest oil producer at the deal that is going to see more than thirty one million tons sent to china on top of what's already being sent over the next twenty five

years of course it's hard to underestimate this deal but there is this breakthrough that we're talking about in that breakthrough is that after more than a decade off the rocks are russia and china seem to have finally reached some sort of agreement on gas supplies from russia to china of course the details of that are yet to be tinkered out by judging by the overall nature of the speech that she being i gave at the university it is safe to say that russia and china are going to solve this particular issue just fine of course it's not just the economy that is the two countries are focusing on and that they see eye to eye on it's also the political the geopolitical issues in the world of today of course you know that russia and china have to do now honestly on there have said unanimously when it comes to things like two issues like the syrian crisis and that they are essentially you can say that to founding states of the brics organization and

considering that that the summit for brics is coming up literally just a just a couple of days from now the issues that she jumping also touched and discussed during his visit to moscow obviously work on the table as well you know you mentioned the briggs very mean how big a role a global role does that play. well actually it seems like go with it every single year brooks is playing more and more important role you have to understand we're talking about countries which have managed to lead the world economy for the last twenty years and like i said russia and china are the front front forefront of this ignition they're hoping to take it one step further at this point they're thinking at this point they're thinking that obviously the countries of brics have established themselves as economic and production leaders but it's now it's now it's now their turn to take political matters into their hands and become a major geopolitical player to kind of formalized organization and even establish the headquarters all of these things are going to be discussed at the brics summit

and of course one of the key things that that you usually hear at the summit is the need to step away from the from the monopole world towards there are multiple larry . like she didn't being said during his speech it's not fair for some countries to capitalize only unhappiness on the israeli of others and that of course is the main goal and one of the main issues that are constantly being talked about during the bric summit so it's obvious that the brics countries are gathering up speed and they're literally coming up to the forefront of everything that's happening in the jew political and economic arena off today's world. ok thank you remember these are live from moscow what with russia and china becoming cornerstone brics economies professor joseph chang a political analyst at hong kong city university believes the alliance between the two could serve as a foundation for expanding the group's global sway. the brics countries met to

meet to establish effective mechanisms to get their act together i think there is a lot of company men and parity among the brics economies with china's capital research with. high pad and huge surprise of natural resources and so on and of course their game day is so very strong common interest in the sense that all five why to seek a larger role you don't intend national community. coming up not even close to closing the u.s. turns a blind eye to the guantanamo bay hunger strike but the pentagon requesting forty nine million dollars to renovate instead of fulfilling promises to close it. and waste of money has by going in the u.k. as it emerges that a london bus or a blue coffin million pounds on translations for immigrants and even if that.

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welcome back raged anti-government protesters have broken into the muslim brotherhood headquarters in the capital after thousands encircled the offices and clashed with riot police side the health ministry says ninety six people have been injured in the latest outbreak of violence which erupted on friday. as the details . chaotic caches continued into friday nights in the surrounding areas of the muslim brotherhood headquarters which is right behind me here in the mccutcheon district in cairo police were fending off protesters from the main gates it is the

most headquarters using excessive amounts of take us protesters responded with a moment of cocktails and rocks meanwhile a few hundred meters away protest is engaged with street battles in street battles with supporters of the mission brotherhood who cut ten hours before and attack those demonstrators fleeing the police come fire started friday morning when anti-government protesters decided to march on the headquarters that is a mystery protest against a president who hails from of the muslim brotherhood and also protesting against what was a legit tact by the missed him by a legit attack by mr bobbitt members last week on journalists were seen injuries coming off the front line with people with severe head injuries in addition to people fainting and vomiting from tear gas and i also saw civilians holding hand made weapons shotguns i wasn't able to ascertain which side they were on but there were a lot of gunfire in these battles between the rival civilian protest groups and basically is what it's showing is a divided egypt as these

a civilian protest and continue to clash it doesn't seem to be any hope of dialogue between oppositional forces and the president protesters here say that there's been no change in the last two years in egypt president obama knows he is ignoring their main demands and instead they have a constitution that has been written by an islamist dominated constituent assembly the brotherhood for their part say the demonstrators of violence and head to the headquarters and therefore they've been responding in a way of defense what is really showing is that there's very little hope of a unified egypt on the horizon. the guantanamo bay hunger strike has gone beyond the critical forty five day mark when doctors say the body is deprived of nutrition officials at the detention center in cuba have acknowledged more detainees are joining the protest over alleged mistreatment this comes amid a pens you can request for forty nine million dollars to build a new prison building and carry out renovations despite a four year old promise to shut it down again as this report the spokesperson for

guantanamo rubber deal ran responded to ortiz inquiry here's what he writes as of friday the twenty second of march twenty thirty and we have twenty six hunger strikers with eight receiving and will feeds this is an increase from thursday which was twenty five in eight we have two detainees in the detainee hospital for rehydration an observation on mental feed last time robert durango back to us was last week also on friday saying there were fourteen detainees who refused all food although defense attorneys had been saying there were many more on their overdue end says there are twenty six we cannot independently verify these numbers or any of this so we have to rely on the response that we get from the officials and the detainees lawyers and here's the latest from the attorneys apparently there are now denied direct access to their clients one probable attorneys say they had a visit scheduled for early next week with one of the clients who lost thirty pounds that's almost fourteen telegrams since the strike began at the big. because

it was approved by the military but the lawyers say they've just been informed by the authorities that they cannot visit the client because the military flight scheduled for next week was cancelled also most recently the navy decided to discontinue commercial flights to the camp so tourney's are really struggling to find out the true extent of what's happening in guantanamo now and not just the attorneys but we journalist as well i spoke with a lawyer who was denied access to her client in guantanamo this week she told me there is a sense among defense attorneys that they are being deliberately ignored by the authorities so there is nothing that we can do we have sent e-mails to the department to burns to the commander. asking them to. talk to us about the detainees condition and we have heard no response so there is a sense of helplessness among the attorneys as well a few months ago the state department shut down the office that was working to close the prison and on top of aig the u.s.

south in command and that's the command that oversees guantanamo has just requested forty nine million dollars to build a new prison building at guantanamo bay for quote unquote special detainees on top of other renovations it says are necessary since washington decided to keep it open indefinitely the military said the potential taxpayer bill for upgrading the deteriorating facilities would be almost one hundred ninety six million dollars and all of this effectively means that the detainees are stuck in this legal limbo indefinitely. british m.p. george galloway says despite the promise the u.s. has no intention to close guantanamo. prison camp where you are held without charge without trial indefinitely where your lawyer has no right to see you where you have no rights of any kind can never be made more comfortable even if you put thick carpet sudden big armchairs like we have in the british parliament in it it will never be comfortable it remains an outrage but the significance of the

investment is this they wouldn't be spending tens of millions of new dollars on guantanamo if they didn't intend to keep it as a legal black hole where our so-called illegal combatants are incarcerated people by the way seized and kidnapped from around the world and taken their drug and manacled in many cases this is the stuff of fiction but unfortunately it's fact in two thousand and thirteen in obama's america political correctness may be leaving british taxpayers out of pocket in an attempt to accommodate non english speaking immigrants one london can simply half a million pounds on translations that will never be read artie's party has taken to the streets to see what labels have to say about their hard earned money being lost in translation. for those who live in the u.k. and don't speak english the british government's been understanding for the past

several years that's because local councils translate information about the services into up to as many as seventy different languages so whether it's your pitch and feeding instructions and or do or a new threats about how to lose weight in a choice of punjab. it's available and courtesy of the u.k. . and this north london bar a hiring day the local town hall wasted almost hall for a million pounds translating documents that no one reading leaflets included a school's guide and french somalians hard cash as well as a gay lesbian bisexual and transgender services directory and friends they meet reflects what they're doing and before they commit mass amounts of money terrible waste that is not right when i see people homeless on the streets. we need a mistress across however people from different backgrounds with english is a second language slave will show great responsibility to learn english as well the

minister for local government eric pickles says that the u.k.'s immigrants need to improve their english while local governments could do with brushing up on them according to pickles putting a stop to the exorbitant translations of public information could help to save money for abortions worsening economy as well as help to improve the english of immigrants and help to integrate them into british society we need to start getting immigrants to work for the u.k. as opposed to the u.k. spending a lot of money on immigrants we should try and help them but not true extent of wasting your council should have a policy we shouldn't buy stuff from legal stuff especially when budgets are really big translations across all public bodies cross the u.k. government one hundred forty million pounds a year the result something the local government minister. and the whole political situation where no one speaks english as their main language in too many british

households so if you can only read your local council newsletter in bengali arabic or somali you might think about signing up for some english lessons otherwise it could all end up greek to you polly boy artsy. a quick look now at other news making headlines around the world the president of my ma has declared a state of emergency in the city of me after three days of relentless that terry in violent gangs of buddhists armed with machetes and told she's a beauty which in most. part is the worst violence to hit mine marston's last summer's deadly riots in the west of the country. tensions are running high in the syrian capital as mourners prepare to bury the muslim preacher killed in a suicide bomb attack on a mosque last thursday forty nine people died in the attack including a staunch supporter of president bashar al assad sheikh bootie the syrian president hit out at the perpetrators promising to cleanse the country of extremists. and

israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has apologized to turkey for errors that may have occurred during the gaza flotilla raid on boats carrying aid to gaza in twenty ten israeli commandos stormed six boats heading to palestine killing nine turkish nationals netanyahu also promised to compensate the victims' families and underlined the importance of cooperation between the two stage during a phone call to the pm frosty relations were thawed during president obama's recent visit to the middle east and easing tensions between israel and its neighbors. coming up after the break we take an in-depth look at every day life of rebel fighters in the oil rich niger delta.

there was a time in america when buses were officially segregated and today if they tried to resegregate the wall next to there would be outrage throughout the usa every t.v. channel and newspaper so segregation in america was wrong but now america funding for via foreign aid seems to be a ok and jim dandy. arab language leaflets have been spread around west bank in palestinian areas asking residents to start using special bus lines plans to put palestinians on separate bus lines were first announced in november of two thousand and twelve after some complaints by jewish settlers of trouble on the buses between passengers of different ethnicities in regards to the special bus lines it's really human rights groups but selim said the attempt to bus segregation is appalling and the current arguments about security needs and overcrowding must not be allowed to kemah flushed blatant racism you know when south africa had apartheid they were slammed with sanctions including from the

us but if you're israel go ahead and segregate all the pluses you like and you'll still be the us is top recipient of foreign aid at three point one billion dollars a year if there's one thing i don't like it's hypocrisy like this but that's just my opinion. so.

you go. for the past two years the battle has raged at the mouth of the niger river pitting local militants against government forces. and multinational oil companies. when i first arrived here i had just a basic understanding of the nature of the conflict. here is the fifth largest supplier of oil to the united states is the eight large six border of oil on the planet but in the niger delta the region that produces hundreds of millions of dollars in oil and gas each year the average person lives on less than one dollar per day there are no good schools no good roads no good hospitals every year over three hundred oil spills contaminate the region and constant.